Chair



March 30'; 1926. 1579 085 D; RQ COTNE'R CHAI-R' Filed Oct. 5, 1925 2sheets-Shea; I 2,

INVENTOR ATTDRNEY Patented M I UNITED J -STATES [P I Davin a. arnonmm'anrzoiva.

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' Application filed. October "5, 1925; srin no. "eo,1s5'5.1

To, all whom it concern:

Be it known that I,'DAvn) R. COT ER, a

Phoenix, in the county of' Maricopa and 5 StatefofArizona,'have inventednew and useful Improvements in Chairs, of whichthe following isaspecification.

The object of this invention is theprovision of ajrocker? support forchairs or the '10 like for convertingsaid chairs intorockers,

' V swings, and that class of childrens furniture known as shoo-flys,etc.

' A further object is the provision of a means of this character whichpermits of the free swinging of the chair attached thereto cienc inractical use and further wherein the construction is such that the samemay be attached to any ordinary form of chair, settee, or the like. 7

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in theimprovement as herein described and definitely claimed.

In the drawings Figure leis aside elevation of the improvement inapplied position. 7

Figure 2 is a similar view of the improvement, the chair or the likebeing illustrated by dotted lines. y 1

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the eonstruction disclosed in Figure 1.V

Figure 4 is a top planview' of the improvement- V n I Y I In carryingout my invention I make use rights 1. These uprights are supported onwheels 2. Preferably the lower ends of the uprights are bifurcated toreceive thewheels 2 therein, the pivot or axlefor the wheels and lowerangle braces 5. Also supporting Fine bars 4 andbracing the same to theup' rights 1 there are angle braces 6 secured to standards.

of a frame which includes spaced front upbeing indicated bythe numeral3. The upeffectively secured to the uprights by upper;

bars, 4.

y the lower 'ends'o f the uprightsto the a 0 D I y p under facesadjacent the rearp'ortions of the citizen of the United States, res dingat Y a j V Passing through in'the parallel bars athere is afshaft 7.Suitable 'stopfmeansf8 arearranged on the shaft and ontact wlth theinner faces of the bars 4 for holdmg the shaft. from. longitudinal Ymovement. The shaft passes through 111)- rights in the nature of legmembers 9 which provide-the rear elements of the improve- 'ment; Theleg-members extend a suitable dlstanceabove their pivotalconnection withthe shaft'l'," and-are of a lesslength than the standards 1. Secured .onthe lower ends of each ofthe legs 9 there is a: rocker member 7- i j 10.The upper andfiat face offeach of the rockers 10 has secured thereonthestraight ends of angle braces 11,'these braces being.

secured by means '12 to the leg members9. I

Journaled in suitable bearings 13 in the top of the standards 1, thereis the straight upper portion 14 of a substantially U-shaped rod memberor shaft. The parallel arms 15 of the member 14 are di'sposedout offrictional contactwith the standards 1, the said arms 15 extendingdownwardly from the endsofl'set outwardly, as at'15, and these The arms15 have their lower offset portions are preferably threaded. The

leg members 9, adjacent to their upper ends are provided with openings16,. through which pass pivots 17. that secure the said legs on the rearleg portions of'a seat 18,. The front legs 19 of the seat carrying ment,ber 18 are provided with apertures through vwhich pass the angle andthreaded ends 15. I

' of the substantially U-shaped rodwhich in I reality is inthe nature ofa'crank shaftg" Suitable bolts 20 are screwed on the ends I 15 of thecrank shaft.

It is obvious thatany seat carrying ele-- ment may be supported on theimprovement in a manner as above described and thereby be converted intoa rocking member. The

normal position of the device is, as illustrated in- Figure 1 of thedrawings In the movement of the chair, the rocker 10 being fulcrumedonarfloor surface, rocks in the usual manner. This rocking movement will7 swing'the legs 19, which being pivotally connected with the legs ofthe seat carry ng member will move the same outwardly, ;as

' it be further desirable, and while a swinging disclosed by the dottedlines in Figure 2 of the drawlngs. A movement of the seat carryingmember in an opposite direction Will, of course, cant the rocker t9opposite angle'te'that -.disclesed iii Figure 2, and thus the seatcarrying member will be moved l'earwardly. The seat carrying member maybe propelled by such :mevem'en't shauldr action is imparted tothe saidseat carrying member the seat theree'f is at all times re; tained in itsnormal lioi i'zoiitalposition 4 The simplicity of the CQnStluCl/lQl land the "ed fe fie' e"thefeef w l; i 'it eus t. i perfectly apparent tothose skilled in the art to such iniventiqn relates, "when "the br ed n@le e iP io iY a ef ill e d wi h h w mpanym s immeshowever "t9 betlllfzllj slqOt l that "T Clpl not h te be estri ed t9 the ma er a iz Perties W et erfl ei e wnsfi f eflew-1 d "ma 't eye e t make eth heesefrom the showing as fairly fall within the V ers and legs a (nank shaftjournaled 0n the top portion bf thestandards, having its dependingparallel a ms ext-ending toward but spaced away fl Qll l thesjtandairds, andfsaid aims terminating:- in *01 1tWzj 1dly (Illl78t8dthreaded extensiens which latter are designed "tb be passed through thelegs olfa chair or thelikeg andmeans. for ally connecting the -uppe1iends eff the with the said'c'haii," orthe like.

"In test-i neny whereof affix my signatn ge.

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